ARTS 9

LESSON 1
WEEK 1
Here starts the
lesson!
OBJECTIVE:
At the end of this module, you are expected to:
● Analyze art elements and principles in the production of
work following the style of a western and classical art.

● Identify distinct characteristics of arts during the

different art periods.

● Identify representative artworks and artists from

various art periods.
 LESSON 1
Distinct Characteristics, Elements
and Principles of Arts during
the Different period
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Recalling Elements of Art!
Elements of Arts Definition

1. Line the way things feel, or look as if they might feel if touched.
2. Shape three-dimensional and encloses
volume; describe the physical nature of the artwork,
3. Form defined by a point moving in space.
4. Value lightness or darkness of tones or colors
5. Space two-dimensional, flat, or limited to
height and width.
6. Color made up of three properties: hue, value,
and intensity.
7. Texture positive and negative areas
Recalling Elements and Principles of Art!
Principle of Arts Definition

1. Balance an area of the composition that is visually dominant and commands the
viewer's attention
2. Contrast visual weight of the elements of the composition
3. Emphasis used to create the look and feeling of action and to guide the viewer’s
eye throughout the work of art.
4. Movement difference between elements of art in a composition, such that each
element is made stronger in relation to the other
5. Pattern concerned with diversity or contrast.
6. Variety uniform repetition of any of the elements of art or any combination
thereof
Note: The principles of art represent how the artist uses the elements of art to create an effect and to help convey the artist's intent.
ANCIENT EGYPT
What Is It
 PRE-HISTORIC ERA 
Paintings
• were found inside the caves
• believed to be their way of communicating
each other.
• It may also be for religious or for
ceremonial purposes and more of an
artifact of the archaeological evidence
 PRE-HISTORIC ERA 
Paintings
dominant features in the
painting were large
animals native in the
region
human figures and
abstract design

Cave of Lascaux
 ANCIENT EGYPT
Paintings
• were believed to make the deceased life place
pleasant giving importance of life after death and the
preservation of the knowledge of the past.
• stylized, symbolic and shows profile view of an animal or
a person with themes that included the journey of the
deceased gods to the underworld.
• The main colours used in this period were red, black,
blue, gold and green derived from mineral pigments
that can withstand strong sunlight without fading.
 ANCIENT EGYPT

Paintings from Sarcophagus of Tutankhamen

ANCIENT EGYPT

paintings of the walls on the tomb

shows events of the life of the king
while he was still on earth and the
scenes he expects to encounter in the
underworld after his death.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
 Paintings
• were most commonly found in vases, panels and
tomb.
• Most of the subjects were battle scenes,
mythological figures and everyday scenes.
• Greek painting are Fresco or water based
painting and Encaustic or wax based painting.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
 Paintings
• were most commonly found in vases, panels and
tomb.
• Most of the subjects were battle scenes,
mythological figures and everyday scenes.
• Greek painting are Fresco or water based
painting and Encaustic or wax based painting.
 CLASSICAL GREEK

Vase painting
-Kerch Style also
referred to as Kerch
Vases are red-figured
pottery named.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
• mostly scenes from the life
of women
• mythological beings
• a scene form mythical
story or event

polycromy, a technique used, a

combination of different colors
specially the brilliant one in an
artistic manner.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
Pitsa Panel

Panel painting
-paintings on flat panels of wood.
- either a small, single piece or several panels
joined together.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
Tomb / Wall Painting

-uses the method frescos

either tempera (water-
base) or encaustic
(wax).
-has a sharp, flatly
outlined style of
painting
 
ROMANTIC ERA
Paintings
• were mostly copied or imitated from Greek
paintings.
• have a wide variety of subjects including animals,
everyday life, still life, mythological subjects,
portraits and landscapes (main innovation of
Roman painting from Greek painting).
 PRE-HISTORIC ERA 
Sculptures
• believed to be a product or result of natural
erosion and not of human artistry according to
archaeologists.
• Materials used in sculptures vary according to region
and locality
• carving may have mythological or religious
significance.
 PRE-HISTORIC ERA 
ArchitecturesA megalith is
from the early agepre-historic
a large developedstone
a form
that
based on Megaliths (a used
has been big rock) from the
to construct Greek word
a structure or
lithos (stone) monument
and megas (big).

• these buildings still inspire amazement today, through

the mysteries of their meaning, the sophistication or
scale of their design, or the ingenuity of their
construction.
 ANCIENT EGYPT
Sculptures
• were believed to have symbolic elements such as forms,
hieroglyphics, relative size, location, materials, colour,
actions and gestures were widely used. (wood, ivory and
stones)
• Characteristics includes; symbolism to represent the
gods
 ANCIENT EGYPT
Architectures
• Characteristics include thick sloping walls with few
openings to obtain stability, exterior and interior walls along
with the columns were covered with hieroglyphics and
pictorial frescoes with carvings painted in brilliant colours,
ornamentations were symbolic like common motifs such as
palm leaves, buds, lotus flower and papyrus plants
 CLASSICAL GREEK
Sculptures
• were tensed and stiff and their bodies were hidden
within enfolding robes during the early times
 
Greek sculptures had finally evolved
and showed all the points of human
anatomy and proportion.
 CLASSICAL GREEK
Architectures
• temples consisting of a central shrine or room in
an aisle surrounded by rows and columns.
• buildings were designed in one of three
architectural style or orders; Doric, Ionic and
Corinthian.
 ROMAN ERA
Sculptures
• were made of monumental terra-cotta.

It depicts battle scenes

between Romans and
Germans
 ROMAN ERA
Architectures
• were durable stone structures both for use and
to perpetuate their glory.
The emperors erected
huge halls and arenas for
public games, baths and
procession. They built them
of gigantic arches of stone,
bricks and concrete or with
barrel vaults.
 ROMAN ERA
Architectures
• were durable stone structures both for use and
to perpetuate their glory.
The emperors erected
huge halls and arenas for
public games, baths and
procession. They built them
of gigantic arches of stone,
bricks and concrete or with
barrel vaults.
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 LESSON 1-
WEEK 2
Distinct Characteristics, Elements and
Principles of Arts during the
Different period
  BYZANTINE PERIOD
Paintings
• were lively styles which had been invented in Greek
and Rome but this time for Christian subjects.
• impressive images which ornamented the churches in
large and small forms.
 BYZANTINE PERIOD
Sculptures
• were religious, everyday life scenes and motifs
from nature.
• Animals were used as symbols such as doves,
deer, and peafowl while some had mind-bender
signs that contained a great theological intent or
significance.
 BYZANTINE PERIOD
Architectures
• It has a lot in common with the early Christian
architecture
 ROMANESQUES PERIOD
Paintings
• largely placed mosaics on the walls of the
churches that follow a strict frontal pose